Washing-machine



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ALBYOUN WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Nov. 26

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

APTHA E. YOUNG, OF ORANGE, NEIV JERSEY.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,762, dated November26,1889.

Application filed November 28, 1888. Serial No. 292,097. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, APTHA E. YOUNG, of Oran ge, Essex county, State ofNew Jersey, have invented a new and Improved \Vashing-Machine, of whichthe followi ngis a specification.

This invention relates to a washing-mm chine that will wash rapidly andwill not tear the articles upon which it operates.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fullypointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinalsection of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a top view thereofwith the cover and its attachments removed. Fig. 5 is a bottom view ofthe cover and its attachments. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectionof the machine.

The letter a represents the mounted sudsbox, provided with splash-boardb, and with two upwardly-extending bars 0, grooved upon their opposingfaces and reaching to the lower end of the suds-b0X. Upon the bottom ofthe suds-box there is placed the fixed rubber cl. consisting of an openframe with a series of round parallel bars let into two of the parallelsides of the frame.

6 is the cover of the machine, flush with the upper edge of the suds boxand supported upon lugs f, that project inwardly from the suds-box alittle below its upper edge. The cover e is notched at opposite faces,and through these notches there pass loosely a pair of rails g, thatengage the grooved -uprights 0. At their upper ends the rails g areconnected by the handle h and by a crosspiece '2'. Between cross-piece2' and cover 6 there is placed a coiled spring j. To the lower ends ofthe rails g there is secured the movable pounder 7t, consisting, likethe fixed rub-' ber, of an open frame and of round parallel bars, butthis. pounder is re-enforced by additional braces in, perforated for thepassage of the parallel bars.

To the lower face of the cover 6 there are affixed a pair ofshoulder-pieces m, which prevent the movable pounder from coming intocontact with the cover. Thus a free space is at all ti mes left betweenthe pounder and the cover.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The wash is placed upon thefixed rubber, the soap and water are introduced, and the cover is put inplace. bear upon the handle h, so as to compress spring j and force themovable pounder down upon the wash. The handle being relieved, thespring will throw the movable pounder upward. Thus the pounder israpidly reciprocated, and as it is an open frame surrounded by water itwill create a suction that will draw the wash partly up with it andproperly expose it to the action of the machine.

The shoulders m prevent the pounder 7c andthe wash from coming intocontact with the cover.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a suds-box with grooveduprights and to arrange thereto a vertically-movable plunger. I am alsoaware that it is not new to provide a suds-box with grooved uprights andto arrange therein a verticallyanovable plunger with a pivotedhand-lever, and to surround the stem of the plunger with a coil-spring,and therefor claim only the parts in the precise construction andcombination hereinafter pointed out.

hat I claim is- The improved Washing-machine herein described,consisting, essentially, of the sudsbox having uprights c, grooved ontheir opposing faces and extending above the cover, the fixed rubberarranged on the bottom of the suds-box and composed of parallel roundbars, the rails 9, having tongues on theirouter sides to enter thegrooves in theuprights, the pounder 70, secured to the lower ends of therails g, and composed of parallel round bars and re-enforcing braces 7c,the cover 6, having apertures for the passage of the rails, shoulders mon the under side of the cover, the cross-bar 2', the handle h, securedto the rails, and the spring j, between the cross-bar i and the cover e,the whole adapted to operate substantially as specified.

APTHA E. YOUNG. Witnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, F. v. BRIEsEN.

Pressure is now brought to.

